_Staunch_, steadfast, unchanging.
_Stead_, n. a place; it is often joined to other words, e.g.
hall-stead, a hall or the place where a hall has been, as in the
sentence, "I went to the pillared hall-stead;" n. _stead or
bestead_, to serve, to aid, e.g. "to stead me in the fight."
_Steadfast_, unchanging, faithful, unmoved.
_Stithy_, a blacksmith's forge.
_Strait_, narrow, cramped.
_Stripling_, a young man just grown up; cf. youngling.
_Sunder_, to separate, e.g. "We wend on the sundering ways."
_Sun-dog_, a bright spot like a faint image of the sun, seen near it
in cloudy weather.
_Swaddling_, anything that wraps or enfolds, e.g. the coils of
Fafnir passing over Sigurd in the pit are called "the swaddling of
death."
_Swart-haired_, dark-haired.
_Swathe_, the long line of mown corn behind a reaper; cf. "swathes
of the sword," _i.e._ heaps of dead in battle.
_Targe_, a shield.
_Tarry_, to wait, to linger, e.g. "Tarry till I say a word."
_Thrall_, a slave, "_short-lived thralls of the gods_," mortal men,
not dwarfs or giants.
_Tide_, time, e.g. "the tide when my father fell;" "the night-tide."
_Tiles of Odin_, war shields, so called because Odin was god of war.
_Tiller_, the handle of the rudder which steers a ship.
_Toils_, snares, fetters.
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